“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

-Reinhold Niebuhr

“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.”

-Reinhold Niebuhr

“All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.”

-Reinhold Niebuhr

“Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.”

-Reinhold Niebuhr

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy neccesary.”

-Reinhold Niebuhr

“Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.”

-Reinhold Niebuhr